On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 08:58:15PM -0700, plug bert wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Hmm...i vaguely remember squid providing a facility
> to block urls based on keywords -- i.e sex, f$$k, etc.
>
yeah but not all pr0n sites uses those banned keywords so it makes such
scripts/programs useless
> The catch here is that "legitimate" sites can get
> blocked by accident, i.e. www.sextant.org or
> something.
>
tell me about
[...]
>
> btw, fyi lang...i heard of this software that can
> actually scan jpegs and other images for porn. i think
> the principle is that it looks for patterns in the
> image usually associated with porn -- e.g., vast
> amounts of, um, flesh colored areas, etc. Can't
> remember what that app was though.
>
so a family picture would get banned and be labelled as pr0n ;-)
> Medyo malabo but i guess it is possible to use
> this with squid and some crafty scripting for
> identifying porn sites.
>
as with firewalling and such, there's no substitute for the good 'ol
ban everything first then manually allow legitimate sites.
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